Police say online fraud victims often in disbelief

The Major Fraud Squad says people may continue to send money offshore to fraudsters even though they have been warned they are involved in online scams.

Detectives in Geraldton have been trying to convince victims of fraud they are not sending money to loved ones but to organised criminals.

A total of 23 people in the city have been identified as victims and have sent more than $1 million offshore.

Senior Sergeant Dom Blackshaw says it took the team a while to convince a Dongara grandfather, who sent $700,000 offshore, that he was being defrauded.

"But there are other people like him still out there that still haven't been quite convinced enough but we'll keep working with them, we'll keep working with the various counselling authorities," he said.

"There's still some people that haven't been able to be convinced, despite everyone telling them otherwise but we'll keep working with the various counselling authorities and obviously ... keep trying to get that message through."